Metaphor for the win on this last of our Poetry Pauses for Hope series.
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Poetry Pauses for Hope: Day 4
What can a new moon teach us about hope?
Poetry Pauses for Hope: Day 3
Hope can be complicated, and today’s poem explores that.
Poetry Pauses for Hope: Day 2
A recipe poem serves as a mentor text for students to think about what hope requires.
Poetry Pauses for Hope: Day 1
A fresh approach to Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers
Writing into the Eclipse
There are so many wonderful eclipse resources out there but this month I wanted to put a resource in your hands of some pretty beautiful writing that you can invite in your own classroom. Being that it is April, what a time to celebrate our beautiful nature with poetry. And while nature is doing […]
Learning From Poems: Titles
This year on Moving Writers, my “beat” returns to poetry as a foundational element of a writing classroom. Each month’s post will examine how we can learn about an aspect of writing from a specific poem or poems, then look at what it might sound like to extend those ideas to a writing lesson in […]
Learning From Poems: Music
Teaching students to hear the music in words, we can help them create writing that is not just efficient, accurate, and clear, but also playful, dramatic, and arresting.
Learning From Poems: Brevity
The brevity of poems allows us to slip them into lessons as we develop skills for writing in any genre.
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